A public comment period on the recommendations of the University Task Forces on Women extends until June 30. All HSPH members are encouraged to e-mail comments to tfw_comments@harvard.edu. The reports may be downloaded from the web site available at www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/05.19/01-taskforce.html.

Hu Part of Award-Winning Team for Lead Exposure Paper

HSPH Professor Howard Hu was part of a team of researchers who received the 2005 Kammer Merit in Authorship Award for their study on the "Relationship of Bone and Blood Lead Levels to Psychiatric Symptoms: The Normative Aging Study" from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM). The award was presented on May 1 during the Opening Session of the 2005 American Occupational Health Conference (AOHC), the world's largest meeting of occupational health professionals.

The award recognizes outstanding articles published in the College's peer-reviewed Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

The study appeared in the November 2003 issue and used blood and bone lead levels to investigate the potential effect of lead on psychiatric symptoms among middle-aged to elderly men in the Veterans Administration's Normative Aging Study.

MPH Student Appointed to National Panel

	Christian Arbelaez

For the next several years, Arbelaez will work to implement recommendations made by the Alliance to hospitals, medical and business schools and will attend public forums around the country. The Sullivan Alliance encompasses the former Sullivan Commission and an Institute of Medicine panel investigating diversity in health care.

Arbelaez is also an attending physician in Brigham and Women's Hospital's Emergency Department and a fellow of The Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Minority Health Policy. He is graduating from HSPH tomorrow.